I had breakfast last summer with one of the titans of 20th century publishing who is now in his senior years running his own smaller operation. He's a notorious non-techie. When we talked, he was trying to come to grips with what the problem for … [Continue reading]
Amazon adds a feature they ridiculed when Nook announced it a year ago, and the implications
Amazon announced on Friday that the Kindle will make a "lending" feature available, allowing "owners" of a Kindle file to enable somebody else to read the book or magazine or newspaper for 14 days. Each purchaser of each ebook will be allowed to make … [Continue reading]
A Frankfurt reminder: the world is getting smaller
At the conclusion of another Frankfurt Book Fair -- my thirty-somethingth -- here is something I actually knew before but have taken on board in a whole new way: there is an enormous gap between the US and everyplace else in the Western world (at … [Continue reading]
The other comparison: ebook royalties versus ebook self-publishing
My last post tried to lay out a comparison of royalties paid by big publishers to agented authors on ebooks against what they pay on print books. What it showed is that the authors suffer a bit on ebook sales that substitute for hardcover print … [Continue reading]
There’s only one Seth Godin, but there are other authors who might emulate him
What shoved other news aside this morning was the word from Seth Godin that he won't be publishing books with publishers anymore. This is another early indication that it is going to get harder and harder for trade publishers to sign up books. It … [Continue reading]
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